Newcastle United do not have enough goals in their side – according to former midfielder Jermaine Jenas.

United are looking for a striker and winger in an acknowledgement that they need to remedy the lack of cutting edge that cost them so dear last season.

And it clearly hurt them on Friday when – despite a below-par performance – better finishing would have seen United return from London with at least a point. 5Live pundit Jenas clearly feels Newcastle must do better and says that United didn’t show “anything” in front of goal.

“One of the big reasons Newcastle went down last season is that they didn’t score enough goals and it was evident again against Fulham,” he said.

“Yes they have invested to bring in Dwight Gayle and they’ve got Ayoze Perez who – from what I hear from people in and around the club is highly rated – but they didn’t show anything. Whether that’s down to supply or themselves not offering enough, it just didn’t quite happen.”

When you don’t score enough, you need to shut up shop at the back and that is where United slipped up on Friday.

United paid the price last season for their mistakes and on Friday it was the same frustration. “It was one of those situations where Rafa Benitez will have been saying: ‘Fulham have got one threat. Stop the crosses and you won’t concede the goal’.

“It comes from a corner – Matt Smith showed a little bit of movement, lost his marker Lascelles and stuck it in the back of the net. They were good value for the win, Fulham – and fully deserved it.”